The places we inhabit

My research agenda is rooted in a framework of care and caring as fundamental (political) activity of maintenance and repair in our world. Empirically, I am interested in how care is achieved in situ, in and with place, and in the context of promissory discourses of placeless care as produced by digitalization. Through this prism of care and place, I am deeply concerned with how digitalization affects core human activities and values.

I work on projects on Virtual Reality, Sensory Reality, digital sedation and digital nature - which I analyze under the umbrella of “post-place care”.

Methodology

I am a qualitative researcher with an affinity for (visual) ethnography and theory building, particularly in the context of place and space in the digital era. I work on developing alternative research and arts-based methods, such as participatory filmmaking, photo essays and sound-scaping.

My strongest ability lies in writing with attention to detail and empathy for others. My goal is to combine this ability with research projects that make the world better and richer.

As a migrant myself, I am acutely aware of the need for translation – not only language, but also cultures, ideas, domains, and futures. My background in Science and Technology Studies has fostered in me an ability and enthusiasm for translation work, employing and critically assessing knowledge practices and a perspective of the world as an ecology.

Resume

WORK EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Researcher, iHub, Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen

September 2022 current

Assistant Professor Erasmus University Rotterdam

September 2018 September 2021

PhD Candidate, Erasmus University Rotterdam

September 2014 September 2018

EDUCATION

PhD dissertation Erasmus University Rotterdam, cum laude

MSc Socio-cultural Anthropology Utrecht University, cum laude

BA Social Sciences, University College Roosevelt, Utrecht University, summa cum laude

WTMC Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture

University Teaching Qualification, RISBO EUR

CONFERENCES

4S Annual Meeting Prague 2020

4S Annual Meeting New Orleans 2019

4S Annual Meeting Boston 2017

4S Annual Meeting Barcelona 2016

EASST Lancaster 2018 (Organizer)

Architecture & Health: Intersections of Health, Rotterdam 2017 (Organizer)

EGOS Copenhagen 2017

EGOS Naples 2016

EGOS Sydney 2015

EGOS Athens 2015

Annual Symposium of STS: Experimentation and Evidence, Helsinki 2017

Assembling Cities: STS Theories and Methodologies in Planning Studies, Zurich 2015

ORGANISATIONAL WORK

European Association for the Studies of Science and Technology (EASST) Council Member 2016-2020

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Coordinator, lecturer, tutor, supervisor

Ethics of AI (English, Bachelor)

Master Thesis supervision (English and Dutch)

Governing Healthy Cities (Bachelor and Master; English)

History and Philosophy of Science (Bachelor; Dutch)

Methods of Qualitative Research (Bachelor Dutch)

Comparative Health Policy (Master; English)

Advanced Research Methods (Master; English)

Governance and Strategy (Master; English)

CORE QUALITIES

Interdisciplinary

Creative

Curious

Independent

Analytical

Translator/Communicator

Out-of-the-box thinking

Ambitious

CORE SKILLS

Qualitative methods

Ethnography

Writing

Teaching

Project management

LANGUAGES

Bulgarian (native)

English (fluent)

Dutch (fluent)

Macedonian (fluent)

Russian (intermediate)

PhD defense Erasmus University Rotterdam